Out-of-context Harry: Seven not-so-random quotes from ‘Spare,’ explained

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, speaks at the “Vax Live” concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood in May 2021. With his memoir, “Spare,” which finally hit bookstores around the globe on Tuesday, Prince Harry cements his place as the world’s least predictable living royal — a chaos agent of the most interesting kind. and the Spice Girls’ Early in “Spare,” Harry writes about a trip to South Africa with his father — now King Charles III — soon after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in 1997. Plus, Harry wrote in hindsight, “Pa’s staff hoped a photo of him standing alongside the world’s most revered political leader and the world’s most popular female act would earn him some positive headlines, which he sorely needed.. His approval rating around the world was in single digits.” This is why Harry’s first public appearance after his mother’s death was a photo call with the Spice Girls before the group’s Halloween concert in Johannesburg. “I’d experimented with them over the years, for fun, but now I’d begun to use them therapeutically, medicinally.” Under the influence of ayahuasca and psychedelic mushrooms, Harry was “able to let go of rigid preconcepts, to see that there was another world beyond my heavily filtered senses.” Work also helped, and Harry wanted to work in Africa — but that was a problem for Prince William, who wanted Africa to himself and was willing to flex his veto power as heir to the throne.